Artist Josh Greene in Residence – Social Studies Initiative @ ASU Art Museum

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) February 7, 2008 -- JOSH GREENE:
SOME PARTS MIGHT BE GREATER THAN THE WHOLE
A Social Studies Initiative
February 18 through May 18, 2008

Artist in Residence
February 18 through April 4, 2008

San Francisco-based artist Josh Greene will be the second
artist in residence for the Social Studies initiative of the ASU
Art Museum, an exhibition series in which the Museum turns
over a complete gallery to an artist to explore their social
interactive approach.

The artist residencies of the Social Studies initiative are

an attempt to open the creative process, making the human
factor relevant beyond didactic labels and documentation,
creating actual relationships through artistic practice.
This is a unifying theme throughout Greene’s past projects.
Often using the source of labor, work and play, Greene has
developed such projects as Service-Works, which provides
a monthly project grant to individuals, the amount of each
month's grant determined by how much money he earns as
a waiter on a specific night in a fine-dining restaurant in
San Francisco; Unlicensed Therapist which consisted of

creating a venue dedicated to conversation; Luncheon, a
weekly luncheon prepared for the administrators of an
alternative art space in San Francisco; and Sophie Calle's
Bed, in which the artist wrote to artist Sophie Calle and
asked to borrow her bed to help him through a break-up
process.

More details on Greene’s Social Studies project
can be found online at:
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/joshgreene


PROGRAMS:

Friday, March 21, 11 a.m.
FRIDAY CONVERSATION ON EXHIBITIONS
Josh Greene, Artist
John Spiak, Curator, ASU Art Museum

A gallery talk about the artists’ work and his current
Social Studies project at the museum.

ARTIST RECEPTION
Friday, March 28, 7-9 p.m.
Joint reception at both the Main Museum
and Ceramics Research Center
locations for the exhibitions:
CARL ANDRE / TIM HAWKINSON
SUSAN BEINER: SYNTHETIC REALITY
March 28 evening includes NightPerformance
TRANSFIX organized by ASU Theater asst.
professors Rachel Bowditch and Jacob Pinholster


We look forward to having you active!

Take care and all the best,

Arizona State University Art Museum

Tenth Street and Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85287-2911
t. 480.965.2787
f. 480.965.5254
e. asuartmuseum@asu.edu
w. http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/

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